[MassHistPres] Demolition Delay Ordinance

[Skelly, Christopher (SEC)]

Frances, you may find this attached draft guidebook from the Massachusetts Historical Commission useful.  While still a draft, it covers some of your questions and includes our sample demolition delay ordinance.  Chris.

Christopher C. Skelly
Director of Local Government Programs
Massachusetts Historical Commission
Christopher.Skelly at state.ma.us<mailto:Christopher.Skelly at state.ma.us>

From: masshistpres-bounces at cs.umb.edu [masshistpres-bounces at cs.umb.edu] on behalf of Frances Welson [welson.fg at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 10:45 AM
To: masshistpres at cs.umb.edu
Subject: [MassHistPres] Demolition Delay Ordinance

Hello -

As a member of the Holyoke Historical Commission, I am writing to ask for assistance. We are beginning the process of revising our demolition delay ordinance, since our current ordinance only allows us to impose a six month delay on demolition. We would like to develop an ordinance that has a longer delay, some guidelines in place to try to limit/control demolition by neglect, and guidelines to ensure that owners are obligated to work with us or with appropriate municipal departments to save historically significant structures. I am assuming that some of you have more comprehensive ordinances in place and we would much appreciate any guidance, suggestions and/or samples of ordinances you could share to assist us as we undertake this task.

Thank you.

Frances Welson
Holyoke Historical Commission

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